Obama: CIA interrogators won't be prosecuted

US President Barack Obama says that those CIA officers who used harsh interrogation techniques on terror suspects would not be prosecuted. The US administration also said that it released four memos, with sections blacked out, which were written by the former Bush administration's officials to justify harsh CIA interrogations of terror suspects. "In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution," the president said in a statement. Attorney General, Eric Holder, meanwhile said that the government would provide legal representation to any CIA employee involved in the interrogations in any state or federal court, if a case is brought up against them. A federal court had given the government until Thursday to either turn over the memos in response to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU (American Civil Liberty Union), or explain why they could not be released. The memos provided the legal framework for a program of interrogations of 'war on terror' detainees that included techniques widely regarded as torture such as waterboarding in which a detainee is made to feel like he is drowning.